The author had a very 'poor me' attitude and seemed to get very upset if she wasn't fawned over by everyone who heard her story. Did Carole seriously ask for a sister and her parents got one from the neighbourhood orphanage? I found the writing style very amateurish and irritating. It is confusing as to why she was adopted by that family to begin with. I'm sure there are many addicted moms that give their children up for adoption, as sad as that is. A story which doesn't seem that unusual to me. I found the writing style very amateurish and irritating. My Secret Mother is the extraordinary story of forgiveness and compassion, as a daughter’s search for her mother becomes a journey from abandonment into love.more Bridget never fully understands that her tender new caregiver is the daughter she lost so long ago. And when she eventually introduces her son to his grandmother, Bridget doesn’t believe her. All the while, Phyllis struggles with telling Bridget her true identity. She begins to care for Bridget-visiting her at home, buying her new clothes, tending to her maladies and giving her as much love as she can.

Phyllis, by this time a community nurse with her own children, keeps the discovery from her family. The mother she discovers is a broken woman-a victim of early onset dementia, an alcoholic, and a woman crushed by years of missing the daughter she gave up. But the loving reunion Phyllis had hoped for is complicated by a difficult past. She prayed every night for God to take care of her birth mother, holding onto the hope that she was alive and out there, somewhere.įinally, after years of searching, Phyllis finds her birth mother-Bridget, known locally as Tipperary Mary. At least, that what’s Phyllis grew up being told. When Phyllis Whitsell was just eight months old, her mother died of tuberculosis. Two separate lives, one heartbreaking secret

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